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NAILD & Its Sustainable Lighting Committee Issue Open Letter About Integrated LED Luminaires
The National Association of Innovative Lighting Distributors (NAILD) and its sustainable lighting committee recently published an open letter, detailing a list of concerns with integrated LED luminaires and a set…
Innovative Outdoor Lighting Design Nominated For Award
A bat ‘superhighway’ with specially tuned lighting has been nominated for a Build Back Better Award., a London-based awards program. The streetlights along a stretch of road in Frederiksborgvej, Denmark,…
Product Monday: Toggled iQ – Networked Lighting Controls With Sophisticated Simplicity
While at LightFair (LFI), last month, I enjoyed a product demonstration from Dan Hollenkamp, COO of Toggled. The company is probably best known for its LED tubes (TLEDs) at Home…
John Arthur Wilson Interview: Better Bricks Wireless Lighting Controls Guide
I had the pleasure of interviewing John Arthur Wilson, a lighting control and utility rebate consultant, about his 2021 market research into wireless lighting controls. That research resulted in a…
The Urgent Need For Resilient Lighting
I originally published this article in US Lighting Trends, in May 2022. It is republished here with permission. A scan of recent news headlines reveals the need for lighting that…
Lights Out Programs Continue To Spread Across North America
The FLAP program in Toronto was the first to raise awareness of the problem lights pose for birds in an urban center, starting in 1993. In 1999, Audubon and partners established the…
Signify’s NatureConnect Generated Excitement At LFI
One of the products that I heard a lot of people talking about at LightFair, was Ledalite by Signify’s NatureConnect. The NatureConnect natural lighting system mimics the natural patterns of…
Product Monday: Award-Winning PC Amber & Narrow Band Amber Street Lights
I’ve written before about the mounting scientific evidence of a dramatic global collapse in insect and bird populations due to white LED streetlights. I predict, over time, a return to…
‘Big Plumbing’ Muscling Into Lighting
For the past two decades, thought leaders in the lighting industry have been publicly lamenting that the lighting industry will be gobbled up by the electronics industry, Silicon Valley tech…
What If Lighting Designers Created Their Own Project Software?
At LightFair, last week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mike Bishop, VP of Sales, at Sourcery, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Sourcery is a lighting design project collaboration…
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